Does a new laptop ruling challenge privacy rights?

3:40 PM,
Jan. 31, 2014

Written by

Kim Komando, Special for USA TODAY

It's pretty obvious that we as a society are now made up of two groups. There are those who, for better or worse, have moved their lives into the digital realm, and those who haven't.

I would like to introduce you to someone in the latter category. His name is Edward Korman and he is a federal judge in New York state. He had a case before him involving a U.S. citizen - a Ph.D. student at McGill University in Montreal - who had his computer confiscated while returning to the States. The judge ruled, sweepingly, that, yes, the federal government had a right to confiscate laptops at the border without ...